A viral video shows a group of white men in Montgomery, AL attacking a Black dock worker. Then, the men got beaten up by Black onlookers. A phrase kept coming up in the online comments – “try THAT in a small town!”. That's the name of country star Jason Aldean’s latest hit. Critics call the tune xenophobic and threatening.

We’ll get some context on the song from Ole Miss Prof. Adam Gussow, a scholar of Southern culture.



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